That one isn’t likely with “House of Wolves” releasing next week. To be honest, with “Destiny” I don’t see them letting the expansions go on sale because anyone that the game hooks will pay for the expensive expansions to have more to do than the regular daily grind. It makes sense to run the game at 50% off right now (funny that the discount is for silver members too since the game requires gold) so that it matches the retail disk price. They draw new players in and promote the expansions to them.

No, not more importantly. Old, returning players will only cough up money on the expansion/pass. New customers (the important ones) will be buying the initial games and the expansions/pass. And if Bungie released the expansion pass on sale before all of the DLC was released, those old/returning players that already purchased it would be rightfully livid.

You are wrong, past players are the majority and of course the ones who got interestered in the first place by the game. They are very important, all experts say the same (read the critics in magazines and web pages). They want both, new and past players. And you will see they are gonna discount the season pass, just not know because of the new dlc, they don’t want to make it look “cheap” but later.

You don’t seem to have a very strong grasp on retail. Past players (current customers) have already given their money to the developer/publisher/retailer for the game. New customer are always… repeat always… the priority because they have not. A current customer is not going to provide as much potential income as a new customer (a current owner is not going to purchase the game a second time).

Current players are important for a game like Destiny’s future of course. A MMO (they can call it a shared shooter, but it is a MMO in essence) relies on a player base to keep the game functional. But that is not where the money is because they have already bought the game (and a large portion already own the expansion pass) and “important” always lies where the new money is, and that is new customers who will need to spend money to pick up the game, the expansions, and also serve to keep the player base full of fresh faces to keep the existing customers that were willing to continue to play the game happy.

Look at it simply. An old customer, if they didn’t purchase the expansion already (which according to Activision a very large percentage of Destiny players already have it), could currently spend $35 on content and have everything so far. A new customer would spend in the area of $65. Which do you think an business that wants to make money (all of them) is going to veiw as the “most important?”

Seriously, so tired of the same games over and over again. Rockstar one week, 2K another, Saints Row another, Ubisoft the next week….

Can you PLEASE tell someone to put some arcade games on sale. Like a “Best of Xbox Live Arcade” sale. There are so many XBLA games, especially on 360, that haven’t been on sale for years and a few that have never seen a sale.

A lot of those games can’t be selling more than a few copies a week at this point. So why not have a sale on them?

Kameo is only $10, the first Banjo game has been on sale several times (Tooie has not seen many sales though). Viva Piñata Trouble in Paradise was a GwG a few months back and I believe the original may have been on sale about then as well (it has been on sale though, a few times).

As for Perfect Dark Zero or the PGR games – well they aren’t available on Games on Demand so obviously cannot be put on sale.

Ahhhhh OK! I didn’t go look…..I just assumed it was taken down. I got it on sale for less than $5 I’m sure….to lazy to go look it up as far as when and the exact amount but I remember something like that.

Always Activision???? You do realize they as a publisher have fewer games on sale than ANY other publisher in the console space. They also keep the prices higher longer than any other publisher on the market.

Thanks for letting me know but I think you may be incorrect. I just bought both DLC’s and all you need is the UIR skin, gold skin for character and weapons and the ward MP map, all of which I can access now with buying these two DLC’s. You are right in saying the vip pass has more skins and maps however I think for achievements these two packs are fine. I’ll double check.

Yup I’m on the game right now, I have terminal and ward, i have boneyard, lost city, checkout and museum. I have car 13, UIR and gold character and I have gold weapon skins. I’ve got everything needed for achievements and all I’ve done is bought the two packs here. I’m not sure why people are saying you cannot get the without vip. If you go to Xbox achievements and read the guide it shows both packs with 250 score each. Gears has 1500 total, which leaves no score for Vip achievements.

No, I don’t and someone has pointed out that I won’t be able to get gold.skin execution because muesum isn’t in rotation for non vip. It’s alrite, just one 30 gamer score achievement is un obtainable, can’t really complain for 10 dollars.

Seriously only 33% discount for Gat Out Of Hell! like anybody would pay that much for it. it’s a Saints Row game and like NBA 2K its on deals with gold like clockwork. i will be back in 2 months when DeepSilver decides to sell this game at 50% off.

Bungie has a hard enough time defending the expansions as they are, why would they insult those who have purchased the season pass already by putting it on sale before all of the DLC has even released? TBH, if you are holding out for Destiny expansion sales, it will most likely be in vain because they are moving more and more towards leaving players without the DLC behind. When companies move that way, they usually don’t discount the extras, they discount the original game that has physical market that declines to push the necessary digital content at full price.

That really sounds good, but for a game that have lost almost 3/4 of its players it is a bad, there are a lot of good new games to play instead. So I will wait, they are gonna discount them, you will see. I really don’t care know and in the next months less because there are better games. This week discounts GwG a is just free publicity for their new dlc pack that’s all.

I agree, they will likely discount them at some point; but it won’t be until everyone who is willing to pay full price for the expansions have done so. It was a few months back that Bungie reported that an average of 16 million players put in three or more hours a day, so they still have a ton of money on the table.

The Digital Guardian version is pretty much the same price as buying the season pass at full price (there was a $5 discount for buying that version over buy them separately that carries over) and the discounted digital version. If it didn’t matter, then why didn’t they just price the expansion pass at $30 instead of $35 initially? Because it does matter. In both cases the small discount is to entice new customers.

It is just because no company sells its “dlcs” cheap before they have wasted a lot of money in plubicity because of the new content. They are using the newcomers, it is just business. Wait a lil longer and the season pass in gonna be in discount so you can play again and you will want to buy the new content full price, but first the ones who are gonna pay full price for everything (old and new dlcs). Have a good day

I know other games put season passes on sale, but Destiny is a very different kind of game. The Destiny expansions do a bit more than just enhancing the story (I know, a poor choice of words when talking about Destiny), a few maps, or cosmetic components. It wouldn’t make sense to throw that on sale before all the season pass DLC is released (I know of no other game that put a season pass on sale prior to all of the content being released first, except for TTG games which is basically just putting a complete game on sale). If they did it would be them shooting themselves in their foot because very few would ever pre-pay for a season pass or DLC content from them again.

Michael is right, we will have to wait a little longer, they don’t want to make the new dlc look cheap neither they want to lose money, a lot of newcomers are gonna buy the complete “package of dlc” if they like it. It is just business logic

Yet they never put it on sale the week before a piece of the DLC is about to be released. No company does that. They may have it on sale before all the content is released, but never the week before a content release.

Michael is right, we will have to wait a little longer, they don’t want to make the new dlc look cheap neither they want to lose money, a lot of newcomers are gonna buy the complete “package of dlc” if they like it. It is just business logic.

Well this is also only the second time the game itself had been on sale. The other thing to consider is who the publisher is: Activision. They VERY rarely put their DLC or Season Passes on sale – and never this early in a game’s lifecycle (unless it is CoD:Ghosts, and that may not have been on sale either).

Currently, from May 12th through May 17th the DLC packs for Gears
of War Judgment will be on sale. Unfortunately, the VIP Pass is not on
sale. As the playlists are designed, the paid DLC do not all show up
in the Standard Playlist (specifically Lost Relics), making it worthless
to people buying the DLC for competitive matchmaking.

I’m sure this was just a slight mistake, and that the VIP Pass could
easily be adjusted to reflect the cost of the sale price of the two DLC
packs. Hopefully this is something that can be taken care of with
communication to Microsoft. Gears of War Judgment recently was offered
as a free title in the Games with Gold program only a few weeks ago.
This means that they are potentially people who will buy these packs
during this sale, unaware of the limitations of it”

In addition you don’t get all the skins and Museum map you need to complete the achievements in the dlc packs.

I’m on the game right now, I have terminal and ward, i have boneyard, lost city, checkout and museum. I have car 13, UIR and gold character and I have gold weapon skins. I’ve got everything needed for achievements and all I’ve done is bought the two packs here. I’m not sure why people are saying you cannot get the without vip. If you go to Xbox achievements and read the guide it shows both packs with 250 score each. Gears has 1500 total, which leaves no score for Vip achievements.

Yes you are correct, it appears that map isn’t in rotation for non vip, however that’s alrite, it’s just one 30G achievement out of 500, can’t really complain for 10 dollars. Who knows maybe they will fix it too.

Currently nothing I am interested in now… Saints row gat out of hell to me was pretty good but overall you can beat the game very fast… without doing any sort of mission… All you have to do is make satan upset enough and there you go.

Far cry 4 is a poor effort reskined from a great game, that gameplay cant sustain 2 games. Oh and the co-op is limited.
Destiny and Saints Row are a lot more fun with friends thanks to unrestricted co op.

I’ve got both XBOne and 360 versions of Destiny digital on release day (last September?) for the same price as you could buy cross-gen: you bought digital 360 version for $60 and got XBOne one for free for limited time, IIRC.